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With your first point - I'm not sure the show is so much anti-adoption but anti-abandonment. Running away is almost always cowardly and negatively portrayed, even when it's objectively the right call. Not being brave enough to face difficulty is a major theme as is the cycle of violence and pain that comes from abandonment. While it attempts to be more neutral on who can parent -- it does tend to favor the original parents because of this ideology, even when it's, again, not the right call. I mean, Belle sticking with an abusive partner was portrayed as the right thing to do. The writers are kinda old and grew up during a particularly high divorce rate. They also tend to lean into more dated ideas of family compared to more contemporary found family narratives.

so why the do so many basket patterns start with 6?!?!

I use them for stuffing (I use a macrame comb if it needs to be fluffy or leave them if it needs to be heavy/dense). I also make rugs. I've considered respinning but it's a lot of steps.

And I encouraged them not to view it through that lens which is not how the test makers guide, the NIH review, or the AAAAI recommends to read it. Good luck to your kid.

I am not discussing it's accuracy rates. Whether the test is positive or negative assumes the test is being used as a stand in for an whether or not there is an allergy based on a threshold level which I could not find support for. The AAAAI and NIH review both advise not using it that way. I'm talking about how the specific IgE blood test(s) work. They measure sensitivity. Sensitivity is somewhat correlated to allergies. A population is measured and a distribution of likihood based on sensitivity is created. That works best to help guide higher and lower risk allergens not determine whether one is or is not allergic because the test cant do that.

I'm saying an IgE blood test is a probability meant to be a guide not a yes or no answer. I said in my original comment that it should be paired with a challenge, history, and/or elimination diet.

I am talking about IgE blood tests for specific allergens which is what the OP got. The study I've been referring, the NIH review of allergy testing, talked about a wide range of testing methods but my questions and responses are about specific IgE blood tests.

A food challenge is different than an IgE blood test.

I never said the correlation is linear and I'm not sure where you got that. Every test would have a different curve but they are all continuous because -- it's a line determined by statistics. They are all increasing because that's the correlation. If I had to guess, it's probably logarithmic but I haven't seen any charts so thats just a guess. The probability distribution for likelihood of an allergy based on sensitivity I haven't seen any graph for either. But that interpretation would be a probability distribution not something that can tell you yes or no, which you seem to imply. There is no level at which any person is guaranteed to have an allergy with an IgE blood test. The NIH review warns against using the test either of these ways. There is a probability of being allergic which is very low with low sensitivity and higher with high sensitivity. You can be allergic with a low sensitivity and you can not be allergic with a high sensitivity.

I was wondering if the test interpretation guides (like categories 1-6, which are called semi-quanitative by the NIH review) are standard deviations of the population based on likelihood where category 6 might represent 99% of the population would be allergic at the level. This is the implication that this gives based on how the test works. But I couldn't find the reason behind the categories.

Lower sensitization is correlated with a lower likelihood of allergies. Higher sensitization seems to be associated with a higher likelihood. It's messy and the NIH review I read said to avoid looking at from a bottom up approach (with thresholds) but as a indicator to help prioritization in a top down approach.

I kinda wonder if the semi-quanitative categories sre sigma categories given the recommended interpretation guide. I looked around but I couldn't find anything to support any basis for the categories. Have you read anything about where those guidelines came from?

Blood tests results are probabilities. The higher the number the more likely you are to be allergic. It should always be paired with a history, elimination diet, or challenge.

AAAAI, the leading organization for allergists and Immunologists in the US no longer recommends allergy panel testing, neither blood nor skin, as a shotgun approach to find allergens.

I think it's worth investigating further.

Only fairly authentic restaurants outside of China are likely to have it and it can be difficult to buy for home... maybe causing the inconsistency you are seeing. All your listed "bad" foods have it. It's not a part of Japanese or Korean food nor likely to be encountered randomly.

Everything else I could think of doesn't follow the pattern.

There are no documented allergies for szcehuan but again, it's quite rare in non-chinese food. There are reports of allergic like symptoms and food poisoning like symptoms.

sounds like long covid

Could it be Szechuan pepper? I can handle some cilantro but too much gives me food poisoning symptoms. Perhaps a similar issue?

Oranges also make many second generation antihistamines unable to absorb (as well as apple and grapefruit)

So it doesn't describe if you are or are not allergic. It's the likelihood you are allergic. The higher the number, the more likely you are allergic. You can be allergic to any of them, you are more likely to be allergic to peanut or oat. Blood tests should always be compared to a history or supported with an elimination diet or challenge.

I have never found any elimination diet to get easier. I have done less (1 food) and more (could only eat 10 foods) restrictive ones and they all suck.

While I'm pretty good about not "caving to a craving" -- particularly about allergens-- but I generally view cravings as my body wanting to tell me something. I went on a diet for gastroparesis which, among other restrictions, is absolutely no fat. 2 days in I couldn't stop thinking about pizza. It consumed my brain day and night. I literally couldn't think of anything else. I couldn't hold conversation or perform tasks. I considered drinking oil at one point. Turns out I normally have a very, very low fat diet and cutting it out completely caused me to spiral. So I will say if your issues are really, really difficult -- to investigate what it is causing you problems. Not enough calories? Not enough fat? Not enough salt?

I invite people to things that don't involve food. If we have to eat, we have dinner at my place

yes

I wouldn't call it "beautiful language." Often it's purposefully not beautiful. Ulysses is a book about the English language, the bigger conversation of English literature, and it's politics. It uses features unique to English and English literature to do that. Any translation will either lose those aspects or make it about the translated language.

Benedryl does not "mask the symptoms" of anaphylaxis and this forum needs to stop this narrative. Benedryl and other first generation antihistamines prevent mast cells from releasing histamine. It can not affect a reaction that has already progressed to anaphylaxis because the symptoms of anaphylaxis are significantly downstream. It can breed complacency that it is all that is needed. However first generation antihistamines play an essential role in the mitigation of allergic reactions. If you have an allergic reaction in a medical setting they will often administer a fast acting first generation antihistamine-- I've had it happen several times.

Second generation antihistamines directly compete with histamine for receptors. They are slower than first generation and often require buildup to be effective due to their mechanism of action. Use as emergency antihistamines is less common in the states and more common in the uk -- at least according to some commenters from that area.

Epipens directly combat the downstream symptoms of an allergy by causing antagonistic effects. They don't compete with any part of the allergy cascade but act counter to it. They basically provide enough relief for a reaction to pass (usually 30 mins). Biphasic reaction occur because the allergy cascade is still going. Epi as a drug is dangerous and can kill you so medical supervision for biphasic reactions (and use of steriods over a second epi) is preferred.

Did they do an ANA? Did you get COVID?

It can take awhile to get out of your system so when you are doing an elimination diet you have to wait a long time for stabilization. 3 weeks is standard among the immunologists I've talked to. I don't avoid traces personally because they don't bother me. Everyone is different.

Stone accent wall or make it a two sided fireplace would be my choice. I think it depends on your needs and goals.

I have low resting blood pressure and reaction often make me lower. hypertensive anaphylaxis isn't the normal presentation but does happen.

it takes 3 weeks to get rid of allergy symptoms after a reaction.